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History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun

5 mn readThe Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest approach to a star. The mission operations team, located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, was able to confirm the success of […]

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The great social media migration: Sudden influx of US users to RedNote connects Chinese and Americans like never before

4 mn readAs Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China. The app, which means “Little Red Book,” often shortened by US users to RedNote, surged to the […]

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Teamsters plan strike at Costco on February 1

2 mn readMembers of the Teamsters union have authorized a strike against Costco on February 1 unless they reach a deal with the warehouse retailer before the current contract expires on January 31. The union said 18,000 Costco workers are set to go on strike at 56 of the company’s warehouse stores spread across five states after […]

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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

2 mn readThird-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money. While the US banking and credit-card giant continues to accept incoming deposits, attempts to withdraw funds or look up accounts bring up […]

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Peter Thiel warns young Americans of US real estate ‘catastrophe’ — but also sees ‘giant windfall’ for some boomers

3 mn readAs a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel is widely recognized for his expertise in the tech world. But lately, the billionaire venture capitalist has been sounding the alarm on an entirely different sector: real estate. During a recent interview with The Free Press, Thiel drew upon the insights […]

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Türkiye’s new stealth drone undergoes 1st internal weapon bay test firing

2 mn readTürkiye’s first flying-wing, deep-strike unmanned aerial vehicle has successfully performed its first in-flight weapons test using an internal weapons bay, its developer said on Monday. The Anka-3, equipped with an internally mounted guided munition, took to the skies and executed the test firing at an altitude of 20,000 feet while cruising at a speed of […]

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